The Evans-Griffith syzygy theorem and Bass numbers

Bruns, Winfried

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-1992-1088439-0

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The Evans-Griffith syzygy theorem and Bass numbers

Author: Winfried Bruns
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 115 (1992), 939-946
MSC: Primary 13D02; Secondary 13C14, 13C15, 13D25
MathSciNet review: 1088439
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Abstract: Let $(R,\mathfrak{m})$ be a Noetherian local ring containing a field. The syzygy theorem of Evans and Griffith (see The syzygy problem, Ann. of Math. (2) 114 (1981), 323-353) says that a nonfree th syzygy module over which has finite projective dimension must have rank $\geq m$ . This theorem is an assertion about the ranks of the homomorphisms in certain acyclic complexes. It is the aim of this paper to demonstrate that the condition of acyclicity can be relaxed in a natural way. We shall use the generalization thus obtained to show that the Bass numbers of a module satisfy restrictions analogous to those which the syzygy theorem imposes on Betti numbers.

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